Passing booking state via form

[alastair]

Firstly, thanks for the great script.

I have followed your instructions in the thread about forms to make my dates clickable to create a form with METHOD="get" which feeds into my ecommerce system. It's been working great.

Now I need to pass a little more data to my ecommerce system via that form and the URL query string; the data would be used to show different options to the user (further down the line in the purchase - and no longer in an ajax availability calendar page). The data I need to pass across is the booking state.

So I have been trying (and failing) to create a field in the form that picks up the booking state of the date clicked. Do you have any suggestions about how to achieve this please?

[alastair]

Any advice on this please? Any help would be much appreciated!

[chris]

Hi,
sorry for the delay on replying to you.

You will probably need to read the date "class".
The dates that have a booking state (ie. not "available" have the class name in them to be able to show the correct style.
This class can be accessed by using ssomething like:

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var state=this.get("class");

However the problem with this method is that you will also get the class "clickable" which is set for all the clickable dates.

I would suggest that you modifiy the PHP code that creates the calendar month and add a new data-type to hold just the booking state something like this (in the functions.inc.php file ln 153):

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<li class="'.$day_classes.' "  id="date_'.$date_db.'" title="'.$date_format.$day_title_state.'" data-date="'.$date_format.'" data-state="'.$booked_days[$date_db]["state"].'">'.$day_counter.'</li>';

You could then access this data-type in the same way as the css class but without any extra data to worry about.

So, you will need to slightly modify the PHP code in the ac-includes > functions.inc.php file and then alter your already modified JS code to get this new data and pass it to your bookings form.

Chris